Crypto & Web3 Startups

Hellas is a network for decentralized, serverless AI compute secured by an L1 blockchain and powered by catgrad, its own deep learning compiler that uses category theory to compile AI models into efficient code without frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. It offers a permissionless, token-incentivized compute economy where providers join the network and developers run any model across distributed hardware, with computations verified via zero-knowledge proofs.

2 investors

Hermetica offers hBTC, a self-custodial, on-chain Bitcoin product that generates daily Bitcoin yield from multiple yield sources across Bitcoin L1 and L2 chains. It also provides USDh, a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin that can be staked for yield and used in Bitcoin DeFi.

2 investors

Hexens is a blockchain and application security firm providing smart contract audits, L1/L2 blockchain security reviews, cryptography (ZK, FHE, MPC) audits, AI and agentic system security assessments, penetration testing, and security consulting. It also builds products including Glider, a tool for tagging and querying deployed smart contract logic, a token risk scoring API, and an expert-triaged bug bounty platform.

2 investors

Highstreet is a game studio building a big-budget VR MMORPG that combines virtual reality gameplay with crypto-enabled digital and phygital goods purchasable with its HIGH token. It develops the game for players on browser and Oculus Quest platforms, delivering content iteratively to its community.

2 investors

Hive Intelligence provides a remote MCP server that gives AI agents a single connection for evidence-backed crypto due diligence, returning price, on-chain, risk, and prediction-market data with source, freshness, and runtime metadata. It targets developers building AI agents, offering tools for market queries, wallet and DeFi tracking, token security and rugpull screening, and prediction-market monitoring.

2 investors

Holo provides dedicated hosting nodes for Holochain applications, offering availability, validation, redundancy, and connectivity. It targets organizations seeking distributed, peer-to-peer infrastructure for their applications.

2 investors

Holos develops immersive experience creation software for the Apple Vision Pro and extended reality platforms. The company serves consumers, enterprises, and government entities with tools for building AR/VR applications.

2 investors

Hopae provides identity infrastructure for enterprises, offering a single compliant API to connect to 65+ government electronic ID systems and trusted credentials, plus an accredited, eIDAS 2.0-compliant wallet SDK. It serves businesses across industries such as financial services, gambling, mobility, and hospitality for identity verification.

2 investors

Horizon provides developer building blocks for blockchain applications, including smart crypto wallets, 1-click cross-chain payments in any token, and real-time multi-chain data indexing. It serves developers and ecosystems building web3 apps across EVM chains.

2 investors

Hotspotty is a management platform for decentralized wireless (Helium) networks, offering hotspot data analytics, location planning, real-time monitoring, team collaboration, and automated partner payouts. It serves hotspot owners and operators managing portfolios of devices to optimize coverage and token earnings.

2 investors

Hummingbot is an open-source framework for algorithmic trading and market making across centralized and decentralized crypto exchanges, offering a trading client, blockchain gateway middleware, an API server, and monitoring tools. It serves individual algo traders, prop traders, and institutional market makers, and is maintained by the Hummingbot Foundation with a global developer and trader community.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Hype is a mobile application that tracks cryptocurrency trends, memecoins, and top traders in the crypto market.

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Hyperithm is a digital asset manager offering quant trading strategies — including algorithmic, market-neutral, and arbitrage approaches — and venture investments in Web3 projects. It serves corporate clients and high net-worth individuals from bases in Tokyo and Seoul, and advises a Cayman Islands-domiciled arbitrage fund for qualified investors.

2 investors

CoinFello (Fello) is an AI agent for DeFi that reads and explains smart contracts, then executes onchain actions like sending, swapping, staking, and building liquidity pools using natural language. It runs automated multi-step strategies within user-defined guardrails, keeping private keys in the user's wallet and executing in a Trusted Execution Environment.

2 investors

IDA provides payment technology for cross-border commerce, remittance, and e-commerce supply chain financing, with a focus on trade corridors between Hong Kong and the Middle East and support for digital asset trading on licensed exchanges. It targets payment providers and businesses engaged in global trade and payments.

2 investors

Impervious builds Bitcoin-based technology and infrastructure focused on privacy, security, and self-sovereignty. The company develops a Bitcoin wallet, a protocol for sovereign handles anchored in Bitcoin, a distributed hash table network, and a marketplace for trading digital identities.

2 investors

InceptionLRT is winding down operations effective December 31, 2025; its web interface will be shut down and withdrawals will remain available through the associated chain's block explorer.

2 investors

InfiniGods is a gaming studio that develops free-to-play, Web3-powered mobile games centered around ancient mythologies, with cross-game assets and currencies.

2 investors

Infinite Fleet is a massively multiplayer online game set in a procedurally generated galaxy where players command a fleet in a military conflict against an alien threat. It features a player-driven economy backed by the INF token, an in-game cryptoasset used to trade virtual items such as ships and resources on a planned marketplace.

2 investors

Inflow provides cross-border payment infrastructure for e-commerce merchants, particularly those in emerging markets, using self-custody blockchain technology to eliminate intermediary risk. The platform offers transparent pricing and high acceptance rates as an alternative to traditional payment service providers and merchants of record.

2 investors

Injective is a blockchain platform purpose-built for financial markets, providing infrastructure for trading, tokenization, and transactions using embedded financial primitives like stablecoins, real-world assets, and programmable derivatives. It serves institutions, fintechs, and governments seeking to access global markets and issue securities onchain at scale.

2 investors

Inpher.io is an educational resource and review platform that helps users navigate cryptocurrency casinos safely by explaining security, fairness, and transaction mechanics. The site provides beginner-friendly guides and independent platform comparisons focused on user protection rather than promotional rankings.

2 investors

Insured Finance operates a two-sided marketplace where users can request and provide insurance on digital assets, covering risks such as smart contract exploits, custodian hacks, stablecoin failures, and DeFi rug pulls. The platform is built on the Polygon blockchain.

2 investors

INTU provides an execution and control layer that connects AI systems and blockchain with existing infrastructure, offering unified identity, policy-based guardrails, and cross-platform execution. It targets developers, startups, and integration partners building AI and distributed ledger products that need governance, controlled data access, and audit trails.

2 investors